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BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY
By W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (Harvard Business Press, 2005)
This international bestseller challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success.

Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation. Yet, as this influential and immensely popular book shows, these hallmarks of competitive strategy are not the way to create profitable growth in the future.
THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER
By Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (William Morrow, 1981)
For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager’s techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the management techniques that spell profitability for the organization and its employees.

The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands.

The book also presents several studies in medicine and the behavioral sciences that clearly explain why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. By the book’s end you will know how to apply them to your own situation and enjoy the benefits.

That’s why The One Minute Manager has continued to appear on business bestseller lists for more than two decades, and has become an international sensation. It belongs on your bookshelf (or on your tablet or Kindle).
JACK: STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT
By Jack Welch (Warner Books, 2005)
Nearly 20 years ago, former General Electric CEO Reg Jones walked into Jack Welch’s office and wrapped him in a bear hug. “Congratulations, Mr. Chairman”, said Reg. It was a defining moment for American business. So begins the story of a self-made man and a self-described rebel who thrived in one of the most volatile and economically robust eras in U.S. history, while managing to maintain a unique leadership style.
Jack Welch surveys the landscape of his career running one of the world’s largest and most successful corporations.
THE GOAL: A PROCESS OF ONGOING IMPROVEMENT (REVISED, 30TH
ANNIVERSARY)
By Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox (North River Press, 2012)
Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world.
The author has been described by Fortune as a ‘guru to industry’ and by Businessweek as a genius’. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry – even to your bosses – but not to your competitors.
TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM
By Taiichi Ohno (Productivity Press, 1988)
In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno–inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing–shares the genius that sets him apart as one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time.
Combining his candid insights with a rigorous analysis of Toyota’s attempts at Lean production, Ohno’s book explains how lean principles can improve any production endeavor. A historical and philosophical description of just-in-time and lean manufacturing, this work is a must read for all students of human progress. On a more practical level, it continues to provide inspiration and instruction for those seeking to improve efficiency through the elimination of waste.
GOOD TO GREAT: WHY SOME COMPANIES MAKE THE LEAP
By James C. Collins (Harper Collins, 2001)
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
By Peter F. Drucker (Harper Business, 2001)
Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker has been analyzing economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of the organization, the individual, and society, there is The Essential Drucker — an invaluable compilation of management essentials from the works of a management legend.

Containing twenty-six selections, The Essential Drucker covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.
THE SIX SIGMA WAY
By Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh (McGraw Hill, 2000)
Six Sigma was originally developed at Motorola in the 1980’s and has become one of the most widely discussed and reported trends in business over the past two years, thanks largely to the phenomenal successes of the Six Sigma program at one of the world’s most successful companies, GE.
7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
By Stephen R. Covey (Simon and Shuster, 1990)
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems.
With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
BUILT TO LAST: SUCCESSFUL HABITS OF VISIONARY COMPANIES
By James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras (Harper Collins, 1994)
This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies.” So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time.

Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies — they have an average age of nearly one hundred years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen since 1926 — and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors.
IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE: LESSONS FROM AMERICA’S BEST-RUN
COMPANIES
By Thomas Peters and Robert H. Waterman (Harper Collins, 1982)
A “New York Times” Bestseller for over three years. To discover the secrets of the art of management, Peters and Waterman studied more than 43 successful American companies. The companies specialized in a number of areas: consumer goods, high technology, and services.
What Peters discovered was that regardless of how different each company was, they shared eight basic principles of management that anyone can use on their way to success. Here they are, amply illustrated with anecdotes and examples from the experiences of the best-run companies in the world.
STRENGTH FINDER 2.0
By Tom Rath (Gallup Press, 2007)
Do you do what you do best every day? The author asks. Probably not. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced StrengthsFinder in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths.
Based on a 40-year study of human strengths, Gallup created a language of the 34 most common talents and developed the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment to help people discover and describe these talents. In 2001, the initial version of this assessment was included with the bestselling management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The discussion quickly moved beyond the management audience of this book. The goal was to start a global conversation about what’s right with people. It appears that the world was ready to have this conversation.
The book ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions discover their top five talents. In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular online assessment. With hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, StrengthsFinder 2.0 will change the way you look at yourself—and the world—forever.
MANAGEMENT: TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES, PRACTICES
By Peter Drucker (Harper Business, 1993; first published in 1985)
Management is an organized body of knowledge. “This book,” in Peter Drucker’s words, “tries to equip the manager with the understanding, the thinking, the knowledge and the skills for today’s and also tomorrow’s jobs.”
This management classic has been developed and tested during more than thirty years of teaching management in universities, in executive programs and seminars and through the author’s close work with managers as a consultant for large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools. Drucker discusses the tools and techniques of successful management practice that have been proven effective, and he makes them meaningful and easily accessible.
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
By Dale Carnegie (originally published in 1936. Current edition paperback, Pocket Books)
A 60 year old classic. You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have…and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you! A must read for managers, employees…anyone.

Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies. Dale Carnegie’s first book is a timeless bestseller, packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

As relevant as ever before, Dale Carnegie’s principles endure, and will help you achieve your maximum potential in the complex and competitive modern age.

Learn the six ways to make people like you, the twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.
